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Fahma

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Fahma () is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine in the western area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers southwest of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,439 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 3,193 by 2017.

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Place details

Locality
فحمة
Region
West Bank
Country
الأراضي الفلسطينية
Population
2,369
Timezone
Asia/Hebron

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Key facts

Settlement.name
Fahma
Settlement.translit_lang1
Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_type
Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_info
فحمة
Settlement.type
Municipality type D (Village council)
Settlement.image_skyline
Fahma6155.JPG
Settlement.image_caption
Fahma
Settlement.pushpin_map
Palestine
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location of Fahma within Palestine
Settlement.grid_name
Palestine grid
Settlement.grid_position
167/198
Settlement.subdivision_type
State
Settlement.subdivision_name
Palestine
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Jenin
Settlement.established_title
Founded
Settlement.government_type
Village council
Settlement.unit_pref
dunam

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
village
Image
Fahma6156.JPG
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Commons category
Fahma
PCBS locality code
10445
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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Ottoman era
  • British Mandate era
  • Jordanian era
  • Post 1967
  • Demography
  • Origin
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Fahma () is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine in the western area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers southwest of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,439 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 3,193 by 2017.

==History== Pottery sherds from early and late Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods have been found here.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fahma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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